Online Tricks

You can now make money online with your Facebook account! Just install Market Lodge on your Facebook profile and you are set.

All users have to do is install the Market Lodge application on their Facebook  profile, select the products they want to showcase in their “mini-store”. Once the mini-store is set up, Facebook users can invite their friends within their network to check out the products they’re recommending. If someone buys a product from the store, the store owner gets a 10% commission on the sale.Here is a trick for you, Market Lodge users can purchase products from their own stores and still make money online by earning the 10% sales commission.

Users can also decide who can see the mini-store and when they’re shown. The application, however,  doesn’t monitor sales, unlike Facebook’s advertising system called Beacon, introduced last year to track online shopping activities outside the social networking site (this was frowned upon, and rightfully so).

The idea behind Market Lodge is that people are more likely to buy a product if it comes recommended by a friend and bSocial Networks Inc could not have chosen a better platform, Facebook. Till today, Facebook has been a place to promote fun and relationship but with Market Lodge, Facebook can turn into a new e-commerce platform.

Click here to access Market Lodge - http://www.themarketlodge.com/

Domaining is the activity of buying and selling domains on speculation and is often compared to the Real Estate business. Once domainers buy domains, they park their websites. Parking refers to developing content in the form of Web links and ads, to generate income and increase the value of their domain name.

Domain parking is also used by domainers in an effort to differentiate themselves from cybersquatters, who buy domain names just to sell it to the someone who owns a trademark contained within the name at an extremely inflated price.

One of the most famous Domainers out there is Kevin Ham. The son of Korean born immigrants in Vancouver, BC, Kevin trained as a doctor but after discovering the power of the internet in 2000, he got into the domaining business and has since collected more than 300,000 domains. As of May 2007, he owned God.com and Satan.com. Combined with this other business interests, he generates about 70 million a year in revenue.

Kevin has an unlikely partner in his ventures. Cameroon. Yes, Cameroon. He chose to work with Cameroon so that he could buy .cm domains and the reason behind this is that many people mistype a web address and instead of going to .com, they land up at a .cm. Try going to beer.cm and you will be redirected to agoga.com which belongs to Kevin.

If you plan on becoming a domainer, here is one tip. Stay away from domain names that have patented words in them.

Some of the interesting resources to read up on domaining are: http://www.domainersmagazine.com and http://www.domaining.com

To add more interesting content and variety to your website, you can install Google Gadgets to your website. You can access Google Gadgets here.

Weather Forecasts, Google Calender, MP3 Players and even a pacman game are some of the examples of the kind of Google Gadgets you can install on your website.

If you are of the technical kind, you can also write your own gadgets and this is a great way to promote your site as your link can appear on the gadgets you develop and this in turn will be embedded into others’ websites. Google Gadgets API consists of a few simple building blocks: XML, HTML, and JavaScript. You just need to know HTML to start off with and Google will teach you about XML as you go along. You will need to be familiar with Javascript to develop advanced gadgets.

Installation of Google Gadgets on your website is pretty easy:

1. Select the gadget from the gadget directory at http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open&source=gghx

2. Copy and paste the code supplied in the next step into your HTML and save the page

3. The gadget is live on your website.

Ensure that the gadget you embed is from a trusted source and you will be able to make money online by increased traffic.